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ANONYMOUS, CANTON SCHOOL (19TH
CENTURY)
Trades, birds, and flowers
Gouache on paper, sixty-one paintings of
various sizes over fifty-five pages, mounted
as an album on English paper, most inscribed
in pencil in English with the profession. The
largest leaf: 36cm (14 1/8in) x 25.5cm (10in)

£3,000 - 5,000
HK$32,000 - 54,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
The front cover inscribed in pencil: Figures
described by John Martin of Fuh Ning,
Foo Chou, China, 11th June 1891. And in
Chinese, 福寧府，馬約翰，六月十一日。
The album embossed ‘SIMMS’; Samuel W.
Simms ran a printing shop from about 1856
until 1921 in George Street, Bath.

198 (detail)

199 TP
ANONYMOUS, CHINESE COURT
SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)
Portraits a Court Lady and a Government
Official
Each watercolour on paper, framed. Each
painting 211cm (83in) high x 94cm (37in)
wide. (2).

£600 - 800
HK$6,400 - 8,600
CNY5,400 - 7,200
Provenance
a U.S West Coast private collection.

Please note this lot will be offered at no
reserve.

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